Yacine Ben Chehida

Extracellular matrix properties and dynamics are important for butterfly scale nanostructure development

The paper investigates genes involved in extracellular matrix development in butterfly scales using RNA-seq and proteomics, identifying key genes affecting scale morphology and structure.

Genetic parallelism underpins convergent mimicry coloration across Lepidoptera

This study identifies shared genetic mechanisms underlying convergent mimicry coloration in Lepidoptera, showing that non-coding regions near ivory and optix genes are consistently associated with color pattern switches across distantly related species.

SAMPLE: an R package to estimate sampling effort for species' occurrence rates.

The paper introduces an R package called SAMPLE to estimate sampling effort needed for accurate species occurrence rate estimation, using simulation and real coral data.